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| Articles written in 2014 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2014 | | What does an idle CPU do? (manybutfinite.com) |
| 324 points | 2 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 324 points | 8 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2014 | | Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (metalintheory.com) |
| 323 points | 1 year ago with 246 comments |
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| 2014 | | John Carmack on Inlined Code (number-none.com) |
| 322 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 169 comments |
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| 2014 | | Quake on an oscilloscope (lofibucket.com) |
| 322 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2014 | | Using the Wrong Dictionary (jsomers.net) |
| 320 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 33 comments |
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| 2014 | | Money creation in the modern economy (bankofengland.co.uk) |
| 318 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 2014 | | How I Came to Write D (drdobbs.com) |
| 317 points | 6 years ago with 188 comments |
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| 2014 | | Heisenberg Developers (mikehadlow.blogspot.cl) |
| 315 points | 8 years ago with 189 comments |
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| 2014 | | “Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure (kevin.burke.dev) |
| 313 points | 1 year ago with 277 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (jakevdp.github.io) |
| 312 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 178 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why Don't We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor? (pcmonk.me) |
| 308 points | 7 years ago with 212 comments |
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| 2014 | | Different ways to build a $100M business (christophjanz.blogspot.com) |
| 307 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2014 | | CSS-Powered 3D Engine (keithclark.co.uk) |
| 305 points | 5 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2014 | | So you want to write your own CSV code (thomasburette.com) |
| 303 points | 4 years ago with 253 comments |
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| 2014 | | X Window System Basics (magcius.github.io) |
| 302 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 89 comments |
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| 2014 | | We are all confident idiots (psmag.com) |
| 302 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 2014 | | Following a Select Statement Through Postgres Internals (patshaughnessy.net) |
| 302 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2014 | | Let's compile like it's 1992 (fabiensanglard.net) |
| 301 points | 7 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2014 | | The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought for $19B (highscalability.com) |
| 300 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2014 | | A Good Vimrc (dougblack.io) |
| 298 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2014 | | Lisp, Smalltalk, and the power of symmetry (insearchofsecrets.com) |
| 298 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2014 | | Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-orientation (blog.abevoelker.com) |
| 295 points | 7 years ago with 378 comments |
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| 2014 | | Quadratic voting (ericposner.com) |
| 294 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2014 | | Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptions (daedtech.com) |
| 293 points | 3 years ago with 242 comments |
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| 2014 | | If ICANN only charges 18¢ per domain name, why am I paying $10? (webmasters.stackexchange.com) |
| 293 points | 8 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2014 | | A little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station (arstechnica.com) |
| 291 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2014 | | Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True (newyorker.com) |
| 290 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2014 | | The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness (theguardian.com) |
| 289 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 213 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Toxoplasma of Rage (slatestarcodex.com) |
| 286 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2014 | | Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks (pnas.org) |
| 285 points | 4 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2014 | | No, you can’t manufacture that like Apple does (beneinstein.medium.com) |
| 285 points | 1 year ago with 208 comments |
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| 2014 | | NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Years (bloomberg.com) |
| 285 points | 5 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2014 | | Semantic compression (caseymuratori.com) |
| 284 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 30 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices” (yosefk.com) |
| 283 points | 8 years ago with 261 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Naked Truth About Writing a Programming Language (digitalmars.com) |
| 281 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2014 | | Assertions are pessimistic, assumptions are optimistic (blog.regehr.org) |
| 280 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 9 comments |
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| 2014 | | Microsoft Word for Windows Version 1.1a Source Code (computerhistory.org) |
| 280 points | 7 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 2014 | | Facebook will lose 80% of users by 2017, say Princeton researchers (theguardian.com) |
| 280 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 206 comments |
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| 2014 | | Friends Are Genetically Similar (nature.com) |
| 280 points | 7 years ago with 190 comments |
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| 2014 | | A sound so loud that it circled the Earth four times (nautil.us) |
| 278 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2014 | | A whale who tried to mimic human speech (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 278 points | 3 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2014 | | Masters of Love: Lasting relationships come down to kindness, generosity (theatlantic.com) |
| 276 points | 6 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 2014 | | Syntax highlighter is wrong (jameshfisher.com) |
| 276 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2014 | | How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One (jichu4n.com) |
| 276 points | 3 years ago with 244 comments |
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| 2014 | | Simple Exercises To Help Undo the Damage of Sitting (artofmanliness.com) |
| 275 points | 7 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2014 | | The dangers of streaming across versions of glibc: A cautionary tale (postgresql.org) |
| 274 points | 5 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity (ocw.mit.edu) |
| 274 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2014 | | If Andromeda Were Brighter, This is What You’d See (waitbutwhy.com) |
| 272 points | 4 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why the world needs OpenStreetMap (blog.emacsen.net) |
| 271 points | 6 years ago with 65 comments |
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